New DUP leader Poots launches attack on Varadkar and Coveney over Brexit negotiations

Edwin Poots was ratified leader of the DUP (Brian Lawless/PA)

The new leader of the DUP has launched a scathing attack on two senior Government figures, Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney.

After his ratification as leader on Thursday night, Edwin Poots described his relationship with Dublin as “really, really bad”.